Tavleen Singh
At Mumbai airport some days ago, I accidentally met the Gujarati businessman who has gone from being Narendra Modi’s biggest critic to being his biggest Muslim supporter. ............
NDTV.com
More than 60 per cent of Indian voters favour the BJP in the general election, due by May, while less than 20 per cent back the ruling Congress. ............
Bhaskar Balakrishnan
The conflict in Syria is nearing its third anniversary, with increasing numbers of deaths, displaced persons and refugees. ............
Bhaskar Balakrishnan
The conflict in Syria is nearing its third anniversary, with increasing numbers of deaths, displaced persons and refugees. ............
IndiaFacts Staff
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a scholarly critique of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History published in 2009. ............
Paul Vallely, The Independent
The war in Syria began much earlier than is generally recognised. The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. ............
Advaita Kala
Javier Moro is not new to ruffling the feathers of the Indian elite with his extensively researched and dramatised narrations of real-life people. ............
Arvind Lavakare
It’s amazing that an otherwise vigilant media of our time has facilitated the Aam Admi Party (AAP) to magnify its reach from just Delhi to almost all across the country in just about two months from the time............
Bharat Gupt
Wendy Doniger’s scholarship was critiqued at a Roundtable Panel in Hawaii for two hours. The book in question was Doniger’s, The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009)...........
Sandhya Jain
Ghulam Nabi Fai, the high profile US citizen of Kashmiri origin (born Badgam, India) who was prosecuted in December 2011 for working as an unregistered lobbyist for Pakistan,..........
Subir Bhaumik
For the beleaguered forces of radical Islam in Bangladesh, this would come as a morale booster. A video-message of al Qaeda’s present chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri..........
Devirupa Mitra
Three years later, the Nalanda University dream is moving at a snail’s pace. President Pranab Mukherjee has cracked the whip and ordered the appointment of a chief executive officer for the University for the first time..........
A Surya Prakash
While we still do not know if there are any VVIP passengers on the AgustaWestland gravy train, there’s certainly evidence to show that the Congress has taken the ‘foreign route' to raise funds since the 1980s.........
Sandhya Jain
Arvind Kejriwal’s bare-faced lie that he has no house to go to after relinquishing office as Chief Minister and will retain his official accommodation.........
Senaka Weeraratna
The Portuguese while pursuing a policy of destruction and plunder of Buddhist Temples held out various inducements for Buddhists to convert to Christianity.........
Suparna Banerjee
In the bicameral structure of our Parliament the Rajya Sabha (RS) is nominally the Upper House. Like the British House of Lords or the American Senate........
NDTV.com
The Indian government has frozen funding of nearly half a million dollars to the rights group Amnesty International's local offshoot over concerns about the source of some of the cash. .........
Aakar Patel
In this strange, disjointed profile, Narendra Modi pays homage to the man who for five decades was the mainstay of the RSS in Ahmedabad, Bachubhai Bhagat. ...........
The Times of India
The BJP could reach its highest tally ever and the Congress its lowest point, giving the NDA the best chance of forming the government after the Lok Sabha polls...........
Sushil Suresh
VHP Australia held a two-day Indian Culture and Heritage Teaching Progam, for volunteer teachers involved in its educational programs on 26 January at Toongabbie Public School hall...........
Sandhya Jain
The fierce resistance of Andhra Pradesh MPs to the tabling of the AP Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate India’s first linguistic..........
IBNLive.com
As the UPA-II is nearing its end, it seems that trouble is brewing for the Congress government. Two senior bureaucrats have now come out against the government. ..........
The Times of India
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Shukla's trust has sought a reimbursement of Rs 2.2 crore in lieu of returning the two prime plots in Andheri (W) ..........
Dipak Kumar Dash
Urban development secretary Sudhir Krishna has lodged a compliant against finance minister P Chidambaram for humiliating him at a high level meeting last Thursday.: ..........
Janet Levy
India's centuries-long resistance to Muslim aggression began in 636 C.E. This started a series of incursions in which Muslim warriors desecrated Hindu places of worship and universities. ..........
JS Rajput
Politicians masquerading as self-styled secularists but really surviving on treating an entire community as hostage to their whims and fancies merely for minor electoral gains, must be shown their rightful place. ..........
Sanjay Suri
The Aam Aadmi Party is yet again in the news for wrong reasons. Some AAP activists have been caught in an immigration test fraud in United Kingdom. ..........
The Indian Express
The designations means anyone who supports Ishaq or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi could have their assets frozen by the US government. ..........
The Indian Express
Bhatkal, who was arrested by NIA in September 2013, was handed over to ATS on February 6 this week after MCOCA court accepted its plea. ..........
LK Advani
The UPA government has been in office now for ten years, from 2004 to 2014. UPA-I lasted from 2004 to 2009; and UPA-II from 2009 to 2014. ..........
The Times of India
A local court here has issued notice to union minister Salman Khurshid for allegedly making controversial remarks against Aam Aadmi Party. ..........
Sandhya Jain
Escalating his attack on the Congress for the extreme poverty and backwardness of Assam despite being the ruling party at the Centre and in the State for so many years..........
Jay Bhattacharjee
This writer has recently been studying the subject of how empires, regimes and dynasties have collapsed in different parts of the world and in different ages............
Dipak Kumar Dash
Contrary to Arvind Kejriwal's claims that he had not asked for the two five-bedroom duplex houses allotted to him after he took over as Delhi chief minister..........
The Indian Express
Our boys made a mistake at Netai and I admit it. Incidents like Netai are wrong, Bhattacharjee said addressing a Left Front rally in Midnapore..........
S Gurumurthy
Arvindji, if you reject both ruling and Opposition parties as two sides of the same coin, you will eventually form a political party of your own, unless of course you work for a revolution to overthrow the system.”.........
Naresh Mitra & K Sarojkumar Sharma,TNN
When BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi declared that the country's Northeast must be set in order.........
Shishir Gupta
If BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s schedule for the entire month is to go by, he will literally live his life in a suitcase.........
NDTV.com
Hours after Rahul Gandhi took him on in his home state with "ullu" (fools) jibe, Narendra Modi hit back alleging he has described the people of Gujarat as "fools" and insulted them..........
The Indian Express
Despite the linguistic barrier, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi cast his spell on the Dravidian land on Saturday.........